Set up your environment correctly by downloading the necessary class files from a GitHub repository and placing them in the proper location on your computer. This guide walks you through the process on both Mac and Windows, helping to avoid common issues that may affect terminal commands later on.
Key Insights
- Download the class files by selecting "Download Zip" from the GitHub repository and extract the contents to ensure access to the Data Visualization Curriculum.
- On Windows, an extra step requires selecting "Extract All" and explicitly choosing the Downloads folder as the destination to avoid nested folders that can interfere with terminal commands.
- Noble Desktop recommends keeping the unzipped folder in the Downloads directory unless you are confident in navigating file paths using the terminal.
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The first step to getting our environment set up is to get our class files. You could download them from the link you've been given, which should be to this GitHub repository right here. And what you'll do to get them is you'll bring your cursor over to the code button and you'll click Download Zip.
When you do that on most browsers, you should see this pop up or something like it. You'll click on that to open and unzip the folder. That's a little different on Mac and Windows.
I'm gonna, on Mac, you're pretty much done. You now have in your Downloads folder a Data Visualization Curriculum main folder. Now, please leave your folder there in Downloads.
And that's because it's the simplest place to have it. Not necessarily the best, but definitely the simplest. And we wanna keep our direction simple.
If you want to move it somewhere like Documents, you can, but that means that the file paths that we'll give you a little later won't be accurate. And that can be a little tough to deal with if you're not familiar with the terminal. If you're pretty familiar with the terminal and file paths, I would recommend that you put it somewhere else and adjust.
But unless you are pretty familiar with the terminal, please leave your folder here in Downloads for your own ease of use. Now, this is, when you click on that, when you click on the web browsers, Downloads pop up and it brings you here. That's all you need to do on the Mac.
It unzips the folder into Data Visualization Curriculum main. However, on Windows, there is an extra step. It should bring you to a window much like this, but it has a little icon somewhere around here that says Extract All.
You'll need to click on that, and then there's one more step. When you click on that, it prompts you with a dialog box for where to put your new folder that you're unzipping. And the default location is to actually put it in the Data Visualization Curriculum main folder in the Data Visualization Curriculum main folder in Downloads.
And we don't want that extra level. It's going to throw off all of our terminal commands. It's going to be confusing.
So when you choose the destination, choose the Downloads folder. That will make sure that we have the exact setup right here where you have Downloads and then Data Visualization Curriculum main. You don't have a folder in a folder, and that could definitely lead to some confusion and some missed terminal commands because our terminal commands, unless you're deeply familiar with the terminal, you'll want to copy the commands that I present to you.
So again, on Windows, make sure you choose Downloads as the destination. All right, once you've got your class files downloaded, we're ready to install Anaconda.